How To Power Clean: Step by Step Beginner's Tutorial

In this video, we teach you how to power clean with a step by step teaching progression. Learning the clean can be broken down into the following steps:

1) Deadlift Setup
2) Hang Position
3) Rack Position
4) Jump Position (Mid-Thigh, Below the Knee, From the Floor)

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[billking]

Im 62 and i do them! 62 is the new 42. Heavy deadlifts once a week and rdls and/or powerclean and push press once or twice a week. Deliberately fatiguing lifts are good if you dont overdo it.😊

[LucasApps]

This is the best power clean tutorial I’ve found. Thank you.

[jesseroest]

Great work, Matt! I want to acknowledge the clean language on this video and on your channel. (no pun intended) I'm a high school teacher and always feel comfortable showing your videos to my strength and conditioning classes. So, thank you.

[anthonyluisi]

Matt, that was the most concise and simple instruction on how to perform the clean ... even for a simpleton like me 👏👏👏👏awesome 👍🏻

[seithlugolobi]

Respect to this trainer I managed to grasp something

[martytoth]

The best instruction of this lift I’ve ever heard. Great job!

[WollyFatboy]

Still doing power cleans 2x a week at age 56. 95lbs. I like the burn, the explosion and how it gets me out of breath.

[Uolverino]

Every time I do the rack, I feel like the barbell is going to decapitate me, lol

[kannon]

With me being very new to CrossFit and olympic lifts, this video was the most helpful that I have found on YouTube. Thanks so much!!!

[PercivalFromWales]

Wow, that has to be one of the clearest instructions I have seen thus far! You just earned yourself another subscriber - and for what it's worth, my respect!

[ethanthealien]

That was a fantastic explanation! Best I’ve seen. Thank you.

[aylagray]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE VIDEO 💗💗💗 truly helped a lot

[josedarrylalano]

The simplest but easiest to understand method. Well done 👍🏼 teacher!

[danielgonzalez]

How does one develop wrist flexibility for the rack position?

[michaelthomas]

Great suggestion about incorporating power cleans leading into deadlifts. I always end up dropping them out of my programming in favor of rows between deadlift sessions due to time constraints and my row is much stronger then my clean. Thank you for the idea!

[aescorpus]

Really nice tutorial, just in time for me to add the power clean to the starting strength program. Congrats for your podcasts they are really entertaining and informative!

[mdwv]

You mention practicing the powerclean during the deadlift workout and specifically power cleaning first and then just adding weight to get up to your heavy deadlift sets. Wouldn’t it be a better option to deadlift first though? That way you get the neurological benefits so that when you do end up doing your power cleans at the end they’ll feel significantly lighter because you just pulled a much heavier weight during your deadlift sets. Similar to powerlifters putting 900 on their back before squatting 700. That 700 now feels lighter because of the fact they just had 900 on their back. Just a thought. Thanks for the great content!

[yasmine]

Thank you, very thorough and straight to the point 👌 explained everything and made it easy to understand.

[blessedbythebest]

The is a grEat way to learn it. I been overthinking it at CF.

[SiegfrieDojas]

Great video ... greetings from Brazil ... ?could you teach how to do, muscle clean, muscle snatch and power snatch?